New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . utphin. He is a great-grandson ofLeonard Kiihl, who came from Germany and set-tled in Hunterdon County, and on his mothers sidehe is descended from patriotic Revolutionary fore-fathers. He received a good common school and prepara-tory education, being graduated from the Lawrence-ville High School in i860. His studies for the legalprofession were pursued in Flemington under thepreceptorship of Bennet Van Syckel, afterward justiceof the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He was ad-mitted to the bar as an attorney in February, 1864,
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . utphin. He is a great-grandson ofLeonard Kiihl, who came from Germany and set-tled in Hunterdon County, and on his mothers sidehe is descended from patriotic Revolutionary fore-fathers. He received a good common school and prepara-tory education, being graduated from the Lawrence-ville High School in i860. His studies for the legalprofession were pursued in Flemington under thepreceptorship of Bennet Van Syckel, afterward justiceof the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He was ad-mitted to the bar as an attorney in February, 1864,and as a counsellor in February, 1867, and, engagingin the practice of his profession at Flemington, soonbecame prominent at the bar. From 1887 to 1891 Mr. Kiihl served as presidentjudge of the Hunterdon County courts, making arecord for marked ability and fidelity in the dischargeof his duties. An active and leading member of theDemocratic party, he was for a number of yearsone of the members at large of the DemocraticState Committee. In 1895 ^^ was elected to the. ONY AND AS A STATE 49 State Senate, a position in which he served for theterm of three years. As a member of that body hewas especially prominent in favoring measures for amore economical administration of county and town-ship governments. In this connection he drafted andintroduced an act similar to the statute which hassince been passed (1903), reducing the number ofchosen freeholders. It was mainly through his effortsthat the provisions of this statute were adopted inHunterdon County. GEORGE HERMAN BABCOCK, en-gineer, inventor, and philanthropist,was born at Unadilla Forks, near Ot-sego, N. Y., June 17, 1832, the secondchild of Asher M. and Mary E.(Stillman) Babcock. The father was a well-knowninventor and mechanic of his times, the designer ofthe pin-wheel motion in plaid looms, of a novel shoe-peg machine, and of many other ingenious and suc-cessful mechanisms. The mother, also, was de-scended from a family of
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